i’m now working on idea of “adaptation” of Ukrainian folklore from the perspective of word and its deep metaphors. the goal was to make a minimalistic, but dense and emotional “sound life” around the main text. material which you can hear in track are recordings of sound sculptures, which are made by the singer of this project - artist and musician Liubov Plavska. 
This track is based on a wedding song, which uses complex metaphors to retell a woman's path from one state of life to another. a path of trials, a path of strength and love.

Морське Зілля - 13/03 edit

Prostory Svitla  for symphony orchestra and electronic
dedicated to Józef Patkowski
Warsawa National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra,  Vimbayi Kaziboni (conductor), Polish Radio broadcast recording 24.09,2022, 65 International festival Warszawska Jesien.

Prostory Svitla  for symphony orchestra and electronic
dedicated to Józef Patkowski
Warsaw Autumn and Adam Mickiewicz Institute commission

One of the books dedicated to the founder and long-time director of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio Józef Patkowski is entitled “Patkowski. Ambassador of music from Mars”.
As the author of the book Agnieszka Pindera explains, electronic music at the time of its appearance - was most often heard in documentaries on space.

In 2021 humanity can already hear the sounds of Mars, but it still needs - ambassadors of the future, visionaries, inventors of new thinking, discoverers of new ways of developing art and society.

The futuristic artists of the 1920s were the same ambassadors of the future in European culture. Those who laid the foundations of new musical thinking, including the esthetic foundations of electronic music, to the development of which Józef Patkowski dedicated his life.

The world discovered by Józef Patkowski, the world of electronic music, the real "universe of sound" was no less impressive than the "space of the starry sky", and its study in the mid-1950s was like the discovery of a new planet.

Józef Patkowski paid great attention to the involvement of scientific approaches in the development of artistic practice in the field of electroacoustic music, sound synthesis research and acoustic research methods in musicology.

The work “Prostory Svitla ” is an attempt to involve artistic futuristic practices and constructivist principles of the art of Ukrainian futurism

in the contemporary artistic context.

Among such concepts, the first is the idea of "constructive dynamism", described by Valerian Polishchuk in the magazine "Avant-garde" in 1929, where the author reflects on the problem of artistic perception the dynamic nature of reality.

Prostory Svitla  for symphony orchestra and electronic

Source: https://mediathek.mdw.ac.at/K2022
Copyright: mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Xiang Zuo, piano

la piccola fiammiferaia (2021) for piano

despite the all darkness
we turn to the sun!
#russiaisaterroriststate 
#slavaukraini

tetyana khoroshun - tournesol

"swells, pines, rustles...“
for symphonic wind orchestra

Performed by Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra
Conductor - Karolis Variakojis

It's a work that tries to describe the uncommon state of being in a rather mystical, unusual situation, when you are taken away by what you hear, see and, as if lifted off the ground, lose your sense of time, space and other everyday things. 
This piece, as it is, is the result of listening to an unnamed audio recording. It had a sound, a volatile, ever-changing rustling. As I instinctively began to think it might be the sea, my imagination began to create the circumstances in which it was recorded. However, in those visions I could not see myself anywhere. Towards the end of the recording, the rustling sound was complemented by sounds uncharacteristic of a seaside soundscape, which immediately gave me an idea of what was happening. These sounds were recorded on a summer night, sitting on the moss under a pine tree, listening to the pine trees being bent by strong wind gusts.

Recorded by LRT KLASIKA during Baltic New Music Days/"Iš Arti" festival 2022

swells, pines, rustles...

performed by IEMA-Ensemble 2023

Phoebe Bognár, flute
Jeanne Degos, oboe
Drew Gilchrist, clarinet
Tobias Krieger, trumpet
Michael Martinez, trombone
Jaroslav Novosyolov, piano
Ying Chen Chuang, percussion
Miria Sailer, violin
Miho Kawai, viola
Clara Franz, cello
Riverton Alves, double bass
Tim Abramczik, sound director
Xizi Wang, conductor

27.07.2023
impuls Festival
MUMUTH. György-Ligeti-Saal
Graz, Austria

The work is a personal exploration of darkness in both a literal and a metaphorical way.  On the one hand, it is an homage to the victims of the dramatic events that were taking place throughout 2022/23 in my hometown, Kyiv, when the bombings of civilian infrastructure during the invasion led to major electricity cutoffs. With the word “Kiovia” being the denomination of the Ukrainian capital in Latin language, the idea is to evoke a soundscape of a megalopolis submerged into blackness. On the other hand, the composition reflects upon the structure of the Tenebrae, a liturgical service held at night with gradual extinguishing of candles and concluded by a loud noise in the dark.

Kiovia: esplorazioni delle tenebre (2023) for large ensemble and electronics

Freiburg Percussion Ensemble
Ziwei Miao, Leon Neudert, Paul Ebert, Jieru Ma – Percussion; 
Håkon Stene – Conductor and audio production. 
Recorded at the Freiburg Music Academy, January 2023.

Johannes Schöllhorn – "Hero und Leander" for 4 percussionists (1995, rev. 2020)

performed by Lítore Quartet

Jaime Estévez (soprano saxophone), Sira Pellicer (alto saxophone), Hugo Lomba (tenor saxophone), Miquel Flores (baritone saxophone)

recorded at the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation.
recording by Rafael Martínez del Pozo

work commissioned by Juventudes Musicales de España as part of the residency program JME-FCAYC

tras las aguas leteas (2023) for saxophone quartet

"sleep during insomnia" for electronic and string quartet (2022)

Performed by Synaesthesis Ensemble

Simas Tankevičius (violin)
Kristina Morozova (violin)
Monika Kiknadzė (viola)
Ignė Pikalavičiūtė (cello)

Within "Dark times" project
(more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcKAJK0b3NA)

team: 
Marta Finkelštein (curator, artistic director of Synaesthesis)
Kateryna Alymova (co-curator, artistic director of Jauna Muzika festival)
Laurynas Gaidys (sound engineer)
Dovydas Kiela (sound engineer)
Julijus Grickevičius (LRT Klasika)
Rasa Murauskaitė (LRT Klasika)

with support and partnership of: 
Lithuanian Council for Culture, LRT Klasika, KCMD (Kyiv Contemporary Music Days), Lithuanian Composers' Union.

"sleep during insomnia" for electronic and string quartet (2022)

Sagardía
Vom Mut bewölkter Tage (2023)
für Harfe und Schlagzeug

Werkbeschreibung

Vom „Mut bewölkter Tage“ gehört zu einer Reihe von Stücken, die sich mit der Beziehung zwischen Sucht und Musik befasst. Das Stück wurde 2023 im Rahmen eines Lectureconcert mit dem Titel „Die Biologie des Verlangens“ (gehalten in der Galerie Nemtsov&Nemtsov) vom Duo Interconnections uraufgeführt. Ausgehend von der persönlichen Erfahrung der Drogenabhängigkeit und ihrer Überwindung mit Hilfe einer Entwöhnungstherapie im Jahr 2020, rückt die neurobiologische, psychologische und drogenpolitische Bestimmung des Abhängigkeitsbegriffs seitdem in den Vordergrund meines Komponierens. 
Gemäß einer Studie aus dem Jahr 2011 an der Universität von Toronto1 aktiviert Musik dieselben Regionen innehalb des zerebralen Belohnungsystems, die auch von psychoaktiven Substanzen oder psychoaktiven Verhaltenensweisen (social media, Autoraserei, Glückspiel u.a.) angesteuert werden, um Rauschzustände und Glücksempfindungen herzustellen. Das verschiebt den Diskurs über Sucht und Musik als zwei Strategien des Überlebens auf drastische Weise. Das zerebrale Belohnungssystem zwischen Erwartung und Befriedigung bewusst durch ein spezifische Zeitstruktur, nämlich rhythmischer ritardando-Modelle, die allesamt ausgeschrieben sind, anzusteuern: das ist das Ziel von „Vom Mut bewölkter Tage“. Die hörphänomenologischen Einschlagwirkungen dieser ritardando- und crescendo-Modelle bestimmen den Verlauf dieses Stückes. Die Musik bleibt so nicht einfach in einem Modell der Repräsentation stehen, sondern sie wird zum direkten Zeugnis eines Willens, zu überleben.

Sagardía, Berlin 2024
https://sagardiaoffice.wordpress.com/

Duo Interconnections 
Clara Simarro – Harfe
Richard Putz – Multipercussion
https://www.harp-percussion.com/

Aufnahme: decurio
https://www.decur.io/

Sagardía - Vom Mut Bewölkter Tage (2023) - Duo Interconnections - 2023

Reverie is an acousmatic composition that leads the listener through an immersive fantasy centered around deconstructed music boxes. The work comprises eight sections that alternate between explorations of the music boxes’ gears and chimes. In the work, the music boxes’ sounds are pulled apart, exaggerated, expanded, and combined with other sounds whose timbres and textures are reminiscent of the original. As the piece unfolds, the timbres increase in spectral and textural density, and the associations become more and more fantastical. Gears are transformed into zippers, coins, chainsaws, motorcycles, and fireworks, and the chimes morph into rainstorms, all sizes of bells, pianos, and more. 

Reid composed the work during residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. 

Reverie won First Prizes in the 6th International “New Vision” Composition Competition “Galaxies” in memory of Nicolaus Copernicus, the 8th KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, and Musicworks' Electronic Music Composition Contest; Sound of the Year's “Composed with Sound Award”; and Second Prizes in both the Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition and the XIII° International Destellos Competition.

Reverie

Composer and pianist. Works in various musical genres.

"sleep during insomnia" for electronic and string quartet (2022)

Boris Loginov

Related tracks